Swift Soho Bar
Chef Led Intimate Candlelit
Swift Soho
Soho
$$$
Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below
Cuisine Guide
Best Cocktail Bar Restaurants in London
London's dining scene spans every corner of the world. These are the finest Cocktail Bar venues in the city, each one personally vetted by our editorial team for quality, atmosphere, and experience.
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American Bar at The Savoy Bar
Editor's Pick
Bar Classic Elegant See & Be Seen
American Bar at The Savoy
Strand
$$$$
The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads
Lyaness Bar
Editor's Pick
Bar Modern Waterfront Elegant
Lyaness
Bankside
$$$
Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window
Tayēr + Elementary Bar
Modern Intimate Artistic
Tayēr + Elementary
Old Street
$$$
World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half
A Bar with Shapes for a Name Bar
Editor's Pick
Bar Modern Intimate Artistic
A Bar with Shapes for a Name
Haggerston
$$$
Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road
Discount Suit Company Bar
Intimate Moody Convivial
Discount Suit Company
Aldgate
$$$
Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope
Happiness Forgets Bar
Intimate Moody Convivial
Happiness Forgets
Hoxton
$$$
Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010
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